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To: Sam Gamgee

If you create a "metaethnicity" of all Germanic language speakers in continental Europe (German s, Dutch, Swiss, Austrians, Flemish, Alsatians, German-Russians), there are about 50 million Americans of a Germanic metaethnicity in the U.S., about 21% of the population.


19 posted on 02/23/2006 7:14:46 PM PST by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Wow, that's very interesting. That stat really separates Canada from the US. I wonder if the ratio was that high in the years leading up to the American Revolution? The melting pot was obviously a success as all Americans banded together to fight the Germans, despite the fact so many have a Germanic lineage.
23 posted on 02/23/2006 8:01:00 PM PST by Sam Gamgee (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Patton)
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